Trade and labor market outcomes
By: Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Stephen Redding
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16662; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16662.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market frictions, and foreign trade.  This framework emphasizes firm heterogeneity and search and matching frictions in labor markets.  It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare.  Unilateral reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the country's trade partner.  Unemployment benefits can alleviate the distortions in a country's labor market in some cases but not in others, but they can never implement the constrained Pareto optimal allocation.  We characterize the set of optimal policies, which require interventions in product and labor markets"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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